Informix
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Brand Details
Type: Product
Description: Informix is a high-performance, scalable, and embeddable database management system (DBMS) capable of handling various data types, including SQL, NoSQL, JSON, time-series, and spatial data. It is used across various sectors, including retail, finance, energy, utilities, manufacturing, and transportation, often for high-transaction online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and increasingly for data warehousing. It offers different editions with varying capabilities and is available as a managed service on IBM Cloud, standalone software, and within IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Informix is known for its ability to handle high-concurrency and high-throughput environments. Originally developed by Informix Corporation, it was acquired by IBM in 2001. While IBM continues to market and sell it, active development and support have been delegated to HCL Technologies since 2017.
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Negative Mentions: 2
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💬 45 comments
⬆︎ 13 upvotes
Informix is mentioned as a data source that may impact the ingestion mechanism.
Found in /r/SQL/Aug 12, 2024
Can I use NocoDB or Airtable to create a schedule view like this? I'm open to other suggestions.
💬 4 comments
⬆︎ 2 upvotes
It is mentioned in a sarcastic comment.
Found in /r/Database/Jul 5, 2024
Informix & MS SQL
💬 5 comments
⬆︎ 1 upvotes
Commenters express concerns about scalability and maintenance, and recommend against using Informix.
Found in /r/Database/Feb 29, 2024
What was it like working with SQL in decades past (90s backwards)?
💬 109 comments
⬆︎ 123 upvotes
Informix was mentioned as a system used in 1987, during the user's work experience.
Found in /r/SQL/Apr 10, 2023
Is it better to learn MySQL or PostgreSQL?
💬 35 comments
⬆︎ 46 upvotes
Mentioned as a database option; one user uses it and finds it easy to transition from PostgreSQL.
Found in /r/SQL/Jun 21, 2019
PSA: 'serial' has been soft-deprecated since PG 10. Long live IDENTITY columns.
💬 5 comments
⬆︎ 30 upvotes
Informix is mentioned positively as a database system that has easy-peasy porting of apps to PostgreSQL. The user suggests that Informix has useful features.
Found in /r/PostgreSQL/Aug 8, 2014
RDBMS Genealogy
💬 8 comments
⬆︎ 39 upvotes
Mentioned as one of the key players in the genealogy of relational database management systems.
Found in /r/Database/Subscribe to our newsletter!
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